We exploit the cross-country and time variation in the demographics and education structure in 11 European countries to study how cohort size has affected real earnings in Europe. When we pool the data of all countries, we find that cohort size has a negative and statistically significant effect...

Schon in zehn Jahren werden dem Arbeitsmarkt fünf Millionen oder gar mehr Arbeitskräfte fehlen. Parallel wird unsere Gesellschaft deutlich altern. Vor welchen Aufgaben stehen Unternehmen und Beschäftigte, Bildungs-, Familien- und Zuwanderungspolitik? Müssen gesellschaftliche Solidarität und...

Four decades ago, Nathan Glazer and Daniel Patrick Moynihan made the argument that the black family "was not strong enough to create those extended clans that elsewhere were most helpful for businessmen and professionals." Using data from the confidential and restricted access Characteristics of...

An important finding in the rapidly growing literature on self-employment is that the probability of self-employment is substantially higher among the children of business owners than among the children of non-business owners. Using data from the confidential and restrictedaccess Characteristics...

"This paper examines the welfare implications associated with different degrees of diversity or similarity between migrants and natives under both migration and trade. We use a general equilibrium model of migration, human capital and social capital and find that there are three equilibrium...